Fazlul Quader Chaudhury was elected member of the Pakistan National Assembly in 1962 under the Basic Democracy system. He was a minister in Ayub Khan’s cabinet (1962) in charge of the Ministry of Agriculture and Works, then in charge of the Ministry of Education and Information, and later in charge of the Ministry of Labour and Social Welfare (1963). He played an important role in floating the Convention Muslim League (1962) and was elected a member of the central committee of the party. Consequent upon a judgment of the Supreme Court in 1963 cancelling the membership of a cabinet member to the National Assembly, his post in the Assembly was vacated (May 1963).[2]

Although Fazlul Qadir Chaudhury established a number of educational institutions in his own district, and pioneered various social welfare and development activities, his involvement in war crimes in 1971 make him a reviled figure in Bangladeshi politics.[2]

Lahore-based newspaper Pakistan Today on August 6 ran a report on six Pakistanis' submission of a statement to save suspected war criminal Salahuddin Quader Chowdhury, who is also a BNP standing committee member. His trial on 23 charges at final ...

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